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At our office, we give our mainframe product managers and engineers a hard time. When mainframe customers come in for meetings, we joke about ensuring that the customer briefing rooms have analog dial-up ports so our guests can check their AOL email during breaks. The reality is quite different. Yes, … READ MORE

A flashback to working in a house of cards… My first role in IT was working in a data center of a reinsurance company as a Computer Operator. I was responsible for running the company’s reporting programs on the UNIVersal Automatic Computer or “UNIVAC” mainframe. To run a program on … READ MORE

The recent EMC Forum events in both New York and Dallas featured a mainframe breakout track. That’s right, mainframe is back; actually, it never went away. The breakout track included: “Mainframe: EMC Storage Solutions Vision and Strategy for z Systems”, “VMAX Mainframe Performance Update: Turbocharging Your Mission-Critical infrastructure with zBoost … READ MORE

As more mainframe data travels on mobile and cloud platforms and back to the datacenter, mainframe data protection and recoverability are more critical than ever. The traditional protection afforded by physical tape is no longer practical. EMC Disk Library for mainframe (DLm) revolutionized traditional tape data protection for the mainframe, … READ MORE

Even with significant growth in mainframe market share in 2012, Darwinian evolution never takes a break at EMC. Today, EMC announced the next generation of Disk Library for Mainframe (DLm) systems; the DLm 8100 and DLm 2100. Enabled by an enhanced virtual tape engine and new 8 Gb/s FICON adapters, … READ MORE

During my academic days, one of my fields of study was Business History. If the mantra of regular historians is “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the maxim of business historians is “those who do not study the past will have to figure things out … READ MORE